Abandoned by her feckless husband during the Depression, Amy decides to leave her country town, and her three infant children, and try her luck in the big smoke. Life in wartime Sydney is far from easy, but for Amy there are the hard-won satisfaction...
With subtle brilliance, Masters's new novel re-creates the mood of small townlife in 1935. The Depression is a difficult time, and love is at a premium inthe day-to-day struggle to maintain respectability....
The Home Girls is a collection of candid, witty stories about rural and suburban life. Set in the mid-twentieth century, these are tales of ordinary people and domestic life. Masters was, as the Advertiser remarked, 'a natural storyteller'. ...
Loving Daughters takes place in a small village in New South Wales and is a brilliant, unsentimental portrait of two sisters: one artistic and restless, the other houseproud and her father's favorite. The entry of an eligible young man into their...
Hungry for love, Una and Enid Herbert, two lively young women keeping house for their brothers and widowed father shortly after World War I, are both drawn to Colin Edwards, the clergyman who moves to their district....